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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, my kid is similar (current senior) 3.0uw GPA. His weighted is actually lower bc it’s a weighted academic average and he had no honors or AP, our school only allows kids with “As”in PreReqs to take Honors or AP.

1380 SAT, took it once. With the low GPA it didn’t seem worth it to try again. Bright kid, executive function issues, mostly wants to just play his guitar.

I second the suggestion to sign up on the Facebook group “College Admissions for Awesomely Average Kids.” They get a little pissed if you reveal that your kid’s score is higher than about 1200, so keep that to yourself. But many schools will take a kid with a lower GPA. If your school has Naviance or SCOIR, look at the scatter plots and see where lower GPA kids are getting accepted.

My kid has been accepted to Miami of Ohio, U Cincinnati, Temple, Rowan in NJ, Belmont in Nashville.

Deferred from Drexel and JMU. Waiting on Ithaca College, U Denver, U Conn (which is a long shot), and a couple of very music-oriented schools. He has very good grades senior year, so thinking that Drexel may convert to acceptance after his first semester grades are submitted (but probably not JMU).

Rejected from (very competitive) Jacobs School of Music at IU. But IU itself didn’t reject him, they told him if he wanted to select a major outside of the music school, they would evaluate his application. I think he had a good shot at being accepted if he’d been willing to select something else.

He had to pick schools based on a specific major that he wanted, but plenty of larger state schools have high acceptance rates; Michigan St, Colorado St, Ole Miss, Kansas, UNH, URI, U of Utah, IU if you’re not going for Kelley or Jacobs—and plenty of others. Plus smaller schools that will evaluate holistically—Ithaca College is an example of that.

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Ditto the Fb group & just not mentioning test scores. Plug in GPA to search bar & scroll to spring when people do final results posts. [/quote]

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